| Ball-jointed dolls have been here in this world for | | | | companies already started manufacturing ball-jointed |
| centuries now. Back in the day, these dolls are only | | | | dolls. Customhouse and the Cerberus Project were |
| made of wood and other materials. And it was only in | | | | among those first Korean BJDs companies. And since |
| the late 1800s when the contemporary ball-jointed dolls | | | | then the Korean market grew and did well. |
| started in Western Europe. | | | | The first Chinese produced ball-jointed dolls were |
| On the other hand, French and German doll | | | | knock offs. Some were direct recasts, while others |
| manufacturers created the first ball-joined dolls in the | | | | were slight variations of Super Dollfie, a Korean |
| early 1900s. During that time, BJDs still have bisque | | | | ball-jointed doll. These knock offs were just made of |
| heads and strung bodies and it only consists of a blend | | | | plaster, poor quality resin or polystone, a blend of resin |
| of pulp, sawdust, glue and other similar materials. | | | | and a filler material like sand. Even though they were |
| In mid-1930s, a German artist, Hans Bellmer, produced | | | | low-priced, yet they were not that really durable. |
| a life-sized ball-jointed pubescent female dolls and he | | | | Dollzone was the first Chinese company to release an |
| used them in taking pictures and other surrealistic | | | | original ball-jointed sculpts in 2005 and it was made of |
| artwork. Bellmer formed the idea of artful doll | | | | a quality polyurethane resin. In the late 2005 to early |
| photography that went on up to the present time. | | | | 2006 their dolls were already being sold. After that, |
| In 1999, a Japan-based corporation named Volks | | | | other Chinese companies also followed and build their |
| produced the Super Dollfie line of dolls. And so, this | | | | own ball-jointed doll creations on the international |
| was already the start of the commercially produced | | | | market. |
| Asian resin ball-jointed dolls. If truth be told, the original | | | | Recently in 2007, the Goodreau Doll was the first-ever |
| Asian ball-jointed dolls were mainly influenced by the | | | | American company to manufacture a ball-jointed doll |
| anime aesthetic. | | | | with more of an American aesthetic influence. |
| Furthermore, around 2002-2003, various South Korean | | | | |